Teacher Profiles
Marina Locke, RMT, RYT(500), CST, Doula
While in her teens, Marina began an exploration of healing, massage, martial arts, yoga and eastern traditions which continues to take her around the world. Her first encounter with Yogic traditions was when she read "Autobiography of a Yogi" in 1982, introduced to her by a psychology teacher who also taught her guided meditation and visualization. It changed her life and introduced her to conscious evolution. Growing up with an older brother who was a karate Sensei, martial arts were her first introduction to Eastern disciplines and self directed meditation.
She has trained as a registered massage therapist (2200 hours), craniosacral therapist (375 hours), midwifery assistant, emergency medical technician (EMT-A), doula, childbirth educator, infant massage instructor as well as international Hatha (500 RYT) and Raja (3000+ hours) yoga teacher training. Ten years after becoming an RMT she began teaching Hatha yoga (1998) and became internationally certified in 2001. In 2015 she refreshed her knowledge by completing the Internationally recognized Pre/Post Natal Yoga Teacher Training (130 hours) through the IYTA in Australia.
In 1994, she and a business partner opened the first massage clinic within a hospital environment (maternity floor, Peter Lougheed Hospital) in Canada. Quite spontaneously she became a doula when her clients began asking her to massage them during their births. She has since studied birth support with Ina May Gaskin at The Farm, with Gloria Lemay's Wise Women's Way of Birth Doula training intensive, and has participated in workshops with Penny Simkin, Phyllis Klaus, and Dr. Bernadette de Gasquet to name a few.
Out of the hospital clinic the Mother (and Baby) Wellness trainings were born. These professional courses teach massage, care and support of women during pregnancy, birth support/doula training, post partum care, infant massage training and prenatal yoga teacher training. The trainings are recognized by professional associations across Canada and abroad. Her teaching skills and practice have taken her to coast to coast in Canada, Netherlands, Germany, Hungary, Australia and New Zealand since 1995.
Marina worked 7 years in the Monashees and Selkirk mountain ranges of British Columbia as a massage therapist for Canadian Mountain Holidays, often seeing 60 appointments/week.
She has studied yoga with senior teachers Liam Perdue, Kathy Nash, Esther Myers, Bryan Kest, David Swenson, Wendy Brown, Anne-Marie Tweedie and many others. She completed a 2 year teacher training through the International Yoga Teachers Association (Australia) in 2001 and was a tutor for the IYTA-NZ teacher training. She continues to study the Yoga of Synthesis internationally through private teacher trainings.
In 2007 she completed the Craniosacral Therapy graduate certificate in New Zealand at Wellpark College of Natural Therapies, and studied the first level of Neurostructural Integration Technique (NST Bowen Therapy) with Ron Phelan in 2009. She was Head of Faculty for Wellpark College from 2005-2007 and taught massage therapy there until 2011.
After the first Canterbury earthquake in September 2010 Marina started an organization called New Zealand Emergency Relief Therapists (NZERT) and flew to Christchurch from Auckland to periodically volunteer services for the next 15 months at her own expense to help people cope with the earthquake trauma. Her home is now in the Christchurch, NZ area and she has incorporated stress release exercises for trauma recovery into her practice since the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes in Christchurch, the 2016 Kaikoura earthquakes and the Port Hills fires. Her continued studies include a 4 day training on Lomi Lomi (Hawaiian traditional bodywork). She has also attended intensive workshops with David Magee, Myk Hungerford, and Thomas Myers.
She is a Member of Yoga Association of Alberta, South Okanagan Yoga Academy (RYT500), Massage Therapists Association of Alberta.
For more information about some of the courses Marina has attended, see www.injoyyogatherapy.com
Joanne Keiran International Yoga Teacher, Doula, Infant Massage Instructor, Nanny & Grandmother
A former student of art and occupational therapist, Joanne has a keen interest in anatomy and movement. A practitioner of Yoga for more than 30 years and a teacher for 14+ years, she began to work with pregnant woman in 2000 after taking the Mother and Baby Wellness trainings and was further inspired by Dr. Bernadette de Gasket (of France) on her approach to perinatal exercises. Joanne has since trained with numerous international yoga teachers. Her life experience as a Grandmother and caregiver to infants has made her a real treasure in the postnatal yoga training. She too is a student of the Synthesis of Yoga and senior teacher for the Foundation of Higher Learning. In teaching, she is able to make each student feel that their contribution is valued and important. She continues to study and teach in Canada and overseas.
Susan Tenold, B.Ed., Supportive Counsellor, Rehabilitation Worker, Infant Massage Instructor
For the past 28+ years I have been working with children (birth to three years old) that are experiencing some degree of developmental delay. I teach the parents how to help their child reach his/her highest potential. My work is done primarily in the clients home, research has indicated children and (most) parents are more comfortable in their own home therefore being more receptive to programming and suggestions. Having a child with special needs can be very stressful and exhausting for all members of the family. Along with providing developmental suggestions and hands on modeling many times I find myself in the position of counselor.
In 2007 I enrolled in a certificate program at Mount Royal College called “Supportive Counseling Skills” and took Infant Massage with Marina Locke. The benefits of infant massage, in all areas including attachment, were overwhelming. I knew this was a skill I could teach my clients.
Recently I received my Group Leader license to facilitate a "You Make the Difference" course that is designed to support parents of children, birth to 5 years old who would like to learn more about fostering and enriching their child's early learning. The course will also provide support to vulnerable families whose children's learning may be at risk due to environmental and/or societal challenges.
Marina Locke, RMT, RYT(500), CST, Doula
While in her teens, Marina began an exploration of healing, massage, martial arts, yoga and eastern traditions which continues to take her around the world. Her first encounter with Yogic traditions was when she read "Autobiography of a Yogi" in 1982, introduced to her by a psychology teacher who also taught her guided meditation and visualization. It changed her life and introduced her to conscious evolution. Growing up with an older brother who was a karate Sensei, martial arts were her first introduction to Eastern disciplines and self directed meditation.
She has trained as a registered massage therapist (2200 hours), craniosacral therapist (375 hours), midwifery assistant, emergency medical technician (EMT-A), doula, childbirth educator, infant massage instructor as well as international Hatha (500 RYT) and Raja (3000+ hours) yoga teacher training. Ten years after becoming an RMT she began teaching Hatha yoga (1998) and became internationally certified in 2001. In 2015 she refreshed her knowledge by completing the Internationally recognized Pre/Post Natal Yoga Teacher Training (130 hours) through the IYTA in Australia.
In 1994, she and a business partner opened the first massage clinic within a hospital environment (maternity floor, Peter Lougheed Hospital) in Canada. Quite spontaneously she became a doula when her clients began asking her to massage them during their births. She has since studied birth support with Ina May Gaskin at The Farm, with Gloria Lemay's Wise Women's Way of Birth Doula training intensive, and has participated in workshops with Penny Simkin, Phyllis Klaus, and Dr. Bernadette de Gasquet to name a few.
Out of the hospital clinic the Mother (and Baby) Wellness trainings were born. These professional courses teach massage, care and support of women during pregnancy, birth support/doula training, post partum care, infant massage training and prenatal yoga teacher training. The trainings are recognized by professional associations across Canada and abroad. Her teaching skills and practice have taken her to coast to coast in Canada, Netherlands, Germany, Hungary, Australia and New Zealand since 1995.
Marina worked 7 years in the Monashees and Selkirk mountain ranges of British Columbia as a massage therapist for Canadian Mountain Holidays, often seeing 60 appointments/week.
She has studied yoga with senior teachers Liam Perdue, Kathy Nash, Esther Myers, Bryan Kest, David Swenson, Wendy Brown, Anne-Marie Tweedie and many others. She completed a 2 year teacher training through the International Yoga Teachers Association (Australia) in 2001 and was a tutor for the IYTA-NZ teacher training. She continues to study the Yoga of Synthesis internationally through private teacher trainings.
In 2007 she completed the Craniosacral Therapy graduate certificate in New Zealand at Wellpark College of Natural Therapies, and studied the first level of Neurostructural Integration Technique (NST Bowen Therapy) with Ron Phelan in 2009. She was Head of Faculty for Wellpark College from 2005-2007 and taught massage therapy there until 2011.
After the first Canterbury earthquake in September 2010 Marina started an organization called New Zealand Emergency Relief Therapists (NZERT) and flew to Christchurch from Auckland to periodically volunteer services for the next 15 months at her own expense to help people cope with the earthquake trauma. Her home is now in the Christchurch, NZ area and she has incorporated stress release exercises for trauma recovery into her practice since the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes in Christchurch, the 2016 Kaikoura earthquakes and the Port Hills fires. Her continued studies include a 4 day training on Lomi Lomi (Hawaiian traditional bodywork). She has also attended intensive workshops with David Magee, Myk Hungerford, and Thomas Myers.
She is a Member of Yoga Association of Alberta, South Okanagan Yoga Academy (RYT500), Massage Therapists Association of Alberta.
For more information about some of the courses Marina has attended, see www.injoyyogatherapy.com
Joanne Keiran International Yoga Teacher, Doula, Infant Massage Instructor, Nanny & Grandmother
A former student of art and occupational therapist, Joanne has a keen interest in anatomy and movement. A practitioner of Yoga for more than 30 years and a teacher for 14+ years, she began to work with pregnant woman in 2000 after taking the Mother and Baby Wellness trainings and was further inspired by Dr. Bernadette de Gasket (of France) on her approach to perinatal exercises. Joanne has since trained with numerous international yoga teachers. Her life experience as a Grandmother and caregiver to infants has made her a real treasure in the postnatal yoga training. She too is a student of the Synthesis of Yoga and senior teacher for the Foundation of Higher Learning. In teaching, she is able to make each student feel that their contribution is valued and important. She continues to study and teach in Canada and overseas.
Susan Tenold, B.Ed., Supportive Counsellor, Rehabilitation Worker, Infant Massage Instructor
For the past 28+ years I have been working with children (birth to three years old) that are experiencing some degree of developmental delay. I teach the parents how to help their child reach his/her highest potential. My work is done primarily in the clients home, research has indicated children and (most) parents are more comfortable in their own home therefore being more receptive to programming and suggestions. Having a child with special needs can be very stressful and exhausting for all members of the family. Along with providing developmental suggestions and hands on modeling many times I find myself in the position of counselor.
In 2007 I enrolled in a certificate program at Mount Royal College called “Supportive Counseling Skills” and took Infant Massage with Marina Locke. The benefits of infant massage, in all areas including attachment, were overwhelming. I knew this was a skill I could teach my clients.
Recently I received my Group Leader license to facilitate a "You Make the Difference" course that is designed to support parents of children, birth to 5 years old who would like to learn more about fostering and enriching their child's early learning. The course will also provide support to vulnerable families whose children's learning may be at risk due to environmental and/or societal challenges.